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HIGH-PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENTJourney Bound
HIGH-PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT
Journey Bound
What we do
CONTRACTS
Employment contracts are the base source of income for sports individuals who apply their trade in team sports, such as rugby and cricket.
Our primary obligation is to ensure that these contracts reflect the true value of the capabilities, talent and drawing power that the sports individual offers to the employer.
In addition, it is of paramount importance that the fluid landscape of professional sport is understood and that the employment contracts allow the sports individual the freedom to exercise his / her options to unlock optimum potential, both on an opportunity and financial front. This process needs to be exercised with the interests of the employer also being taken care of.
SPONSORSHIPS
World-renowned professional sports individuals have a secondary value rooted outside of the hard skills they bring to the arena. The inspiration they bring, the values they drive, the key characteristics they reflect, and the examples they set, have the power to influence the behaviour of people, good or bad.
The goodwill of world-class sports individuals, who are also champion human beings, is extremely valuable. The corporate world eagerly latches onto these characteristics to use them as a billboard confirming that they are synonymous with the values and driving ideologies of the corporate.
The corporate world is prepared to pay big money for sports individuals who can enhance their brands through shared values and characteristics. Such partnerships propel positive revenue growth and unlock new markets.
DAILY AFFAIRS
Hanging out in coffee shops, playing online video games, and spending large chunks of time promoting ego on social media, has become a growing trend amongst sports individuals. These actions come at a very high price in the long run.
At Navigant, we will always respect the freedom of choice of every individual. However, we have a fanatic focus on coaching and mentoring the importance of spending time wisely on a day-to-day basis. We rely on experts to assist on this front, with experience in positive psychology, neuroscience, and even philosophy.
Many observers deem our opinion on the importance of this as laughable. However, the more experience we gain and the more we have the benefit of analysing the strategies of world-class sports individuals that we have been privileged to manage, the more it becomes evident that it is the habits of high-performance athletes in their daily affairs that determine their success in the actual sport they practice. Choices determine outcomes.
FINANCES
The greatest sports individuals who roam the planet share a mental DNA with unmistakable characteristics. One of these is staying power, the ability to perform at the highest level for some time that far outlasts that of peers. However, even the greatest will meet a day where their professional career ends.
When the day comes, the test to determine whether a career was worth the while or not, will be taken. The only way to pass it is to be able to illustrate with empirical proof that the remainder of the sports individual’s life outside of sport will be better because of the fact that he or she spent significant time in a professional sports career. Many factors get taken into consideration to determine this.
One of them is the financial stability of the sports individual and the ability to maintain a lifestyle where there is no need to make radical decisions to cut back on monthly expenses because the loss of income from professional sport means that there is no longer the financial resources to do so.
It is a traumatic, uncertain, and extremely taxing experience for anyone, when a career ends in professional sport under circumstances outside the control of the individual. Most professional careers that end in tears include sudden financial pressure because of exorbitant and expansive lifestyles with a total disregard of the inevitable moment when the financial fountain of sport dries up. At Navigant, we focus on teaching our clients from a young age that planning needs to be made daily to provide for life after professional sport. It is not an easy task, but it is the most important task.